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When have "SJWs" ever lobbied to pull maps or other public information or safety resources? Can you come up with one example?

The language is only one component in a given scenario. What the language is being deployed to do is very important. Murderers can use the same language in their court defenses as innocent people.




Isn’t cancel culture more or less the same thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-out_culture#Cancel_Cultur...


Cancel culture is not remotely related to Apple pulling a maps application off the app store. No one has been cancelled here, unless you count government suppression of speech as "cancel culture".


I don’t know, they seem relatively related. Both are actions / attempts to silence opposing ideas by putting pressure on businesses and consumers.

Calling for someone to be silenced (cancel culture) is closer to actual censorship than the classic “I disagree with what you say but will fight for your right to say it.”




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